[LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 08 August 2008, Emanuel Rumpf wrote:
>2008/8/7 Thorsten Wilms <t_w_ at freenet.de>:
>> However, for precise geometrical shapes, Blender is the wrong tool. It
>> can be done to some degree, but it is just painful compared to a decent
>> CAD tool.
>
>Here's a comunity, that tries to extend Blender for these
>requirements. (Some Scripts are available)
>http://blender-archi.tuxfamily.org/Main_Page
>
>
>BRL-CAD
>http://brlcad.org/
>Article:
>http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/1633

The article is dated, there have been 2 releases since.  Unforch for me, the 
last release is for IA64 linux only, not x86-32.  I already have 7.10, so 
downloaded the srcs to see if it will build on x86-32.

>
>Some upcoming OS CAD projects:
>
>avoCADo
>http://avocado-cad.sourceforge.net/

Interesting, downloaded it.

>FreeCAD
>http://juergen-riegel.net/FreeCAD/Docu/index.php?title=Main_Page

Big pre-alpha notices on download page.

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